African American Politics Archives - Page 28 of 29

Milwaukee, African American Vote, Black Vote, Donald Trump, Black Republican, KOLUMN Magazine, KOLUMN

‘Living in hell’? Milwaukee’s black residents defy Trump’s stereotypes

Photographer and writer Chris Arnade spent a week in one of the most segregated neighborhoods in Milwaukee, where 23-year-old Sylville Smith was shot by the police last August. Residents had a lot to say.

Mark Burns, The NOW Television Network, Televangelism, African American Republican, KOLUMN Magazine, KOLUMN

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Mark Burns, Trump’s Favorite Black Pastor: Hillary Wants ‘Genocide’ for Blacks

Meet Mark Burns, Trump’s most prominent surrogate to black voters, who’s tweeted a cartoon of Clinton in blackface and says she would kill Christianity.

African American Votes, Voter Suppression, Voting Rolls Purge, Voter Corruption, KOLUMN Magazine, KOLUMN

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Critics See Efforts by Counties and Towns to Purge Minority Voters From Rolls

When the deputy sheriff’s patrol cruiser pulled up beside him as he walked down Broad Street at sunset last August, Martee Flournoy, a 32-year-old black man, was both confused and rattled. He had reason: In this corner of rural Georgia, African-Americans are arrested at a rate far higher than that of whites.

Heather McGhee, Racism, CSPAN, C-SPAN, KOLUMN Magazine, KOLUMN

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A C-SPAN caller asked a black guest how to stop being prejudiced. Here’s how she responded.

While a guest on C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal” on Aug. 18, a caller told public-policy organizer Heather McGhee he was a prejudiced white man, but he wanted to know what he could do about it. This is what she said. (C-SPAN)

Mass Incarceration, Black Crime, Clinton Crime Bill, KOLUMN Magazine, KOLUMN

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Black Incarceration hasn’t been this low in a generation

Throughout the presidential campaign season, both Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton have been excoriated for supporting the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, which critics charge is fueling mass incarceration of African Americans.

Baltimore Police Department, Baltimore Riots, Baltimore Crime, Black Lives Matter, BLM, KOLUMN Magazine, KOLUMN

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“There are systemic failures”: Broken-windows policing and racial discrimination in Baltimore and beyond

Salon Talks’ Carrie Sheffield sits down with The Grios’ Natasha Alford and civil rights lawyer Paul Prestia

Stand Your Ground, Trayvon Martin, Castle Doctrine, Self Defense, KOLUMN Magazine, KOLUMN

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The ‘Ground’ in ‘Stand Your Ground’ Means Any Place a White Person Is Nervous

[two_fifth padding=”0 25px 0 10px”]BY Patricia J. Williams | PUB The Nation He looked dangerous. He looked like a suspect. He looked like he was reaching for a weapon. The officer feared for his life.[/two_fifth][three_fifth_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] This familiar litany was recited on the news more than once in this vexed summer—a time weighted with foreboding, anxiety, and grief. We are all afraid of something: terrorism, random outlaws with PTSD, ominous political forces. As a result, gun sales have soared. Paradoxically, rising gun sales mean that it’s increasingly reasonable to suspect that someone pulled over by police to the […]

Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between The World And Me, Reparations, KOLUMN Magazine, KOLUMN

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My Mother, the Drug War and Me: Reading Ta-Nehisi Coates and Forgiving my Own Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration

For years, I blamed the destruction of our family on her. Coates’ newest Atlantic article opened my eyes—and heart.

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David Duke’s getting more support from black voters in his race than Donald Trump is in his

Former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke was interviewed by NPR’s Steve Inskeep this week, and he reiterated his affection for the man at the top of his party’s ticket.

Black Lives, Racial Profiling, Traveling While Black, African American Travel, KOLUMN Magazine, KOLUMN

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Teju Cole talks to Taiye Selasi: ‘Afropolitan, American, African. Whatever’

The authors discuss translation, ‘travelling while black’ and how to avoid classification

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